Naked: Thе Nude іn America
A resplendent presentation οf thе nude іn American art, photography, аnd рοрυlаr culture, frοm thе eighteenth century tο thе present. Wіth more thаn four hundred color illustrations, thіѕ іѕ thе mοѕt thorough аnd wide-reaching survey οf thе representation οf thе male аnd female nude іn American visual culture уеt published. Bram Dijkstra explores thе history οf thе subject frοm іtѕ earliest manifestations іn thе paintings οf John Singleton Copley аnd Benjamin West tο thе taboo-shredding imagery
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Full view of the American nude,
Bram Dijkstra’s books have encompassed literature, art and popular culture. His approach has yielded excellent studies of a wide variety of subjects, from Expressionism in American art to Georgia O’Keeffe to the sinister view of women in Fin-De-siecle European Culture.
Dijkstra confronts a grand scale subject in the beautifully designed “Naked: The Nude in America,” a generously illustrated volume that takes us from works by iconic early artists, such as Benjamin West and John Trumbull, to familiar figures of our age, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Andrew Wyeth, Lee Friedlander and Eleanor Antin.
The clarity of his text is a pleasure. Dijkstra’s insights about the contradictory American attitude toward the body, alternately Puritanical and accepting, are sharply focused. This is a book that will appeal equally to the general reader and the highly informed one.
“Naked” is thick with visual riches from the history of drawing, painting, photography and illustration in America and the quality of the reproductions is extremely high. This is also the first focused study of the nude in American art to appear in decades — and it’s hard to fathom why, seeing how rich a subject this is in Dijkstra’s new book.
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|Poorly Manufactured Book – Rizzolli should be ashamed!,
Like everything else, increasing numbers of art books are being manufactured in China. In general, I have found the quality of the physical books manufactured in China to be well below books made in Italy or Germany or even the United States. Specific to this book, the lower corners of the pages along the spine are not anchored and pop out as you turn the page. Also the stitching for securing the pages is highly visible. You almost never see this in a well manufactured book. The book also feels like it will be falling a part in six months of even light usage. My sympathy goes out to the author. His publisher has essentially trashed his excellent scholarly and curatorial effort by putting out a poorly constructed book. He deserves better. I will be returning the book to Amazon today for a refund.
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|Great Art Book,
Aside from having quality reproductions, the text of the book deals with how the nude in the American Art (USA) has been impacted by the varying tides of socio-political discourse. The content of the narrative leans left but I feel it does so appropriately.
Domenico Petrillo
Beacon, NY, USA
1/25/11
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